Malaysia

Economic Freedom Rating, 5-Yr Change - Malaysia Compared to Continent

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Armenia	4.48%
Azerbaijan	2.22%
Bangladesh	-8.96%
Cambodia	-11.81%
China	0.42%
Georgia	18.21%
Hong Kong	0.50%
India	5.81%
Indonesia	-3.39%
Japan	7.13%
Kazakhstan	15.78%
Kyrgyztan	7.74%
Laos	20.00%
Malaysia	5.65%
Mongolia	8.81%
Myanmar	-11.95%
Nepal	6.11%
North Korea	-66.25%
Pakistan	3.34%
Philippines	-7.31%
Singapore	-0.90%
South Korea	-0.60%
Sri Lanka	-6.72%
Taiwan	-0.87%
Tajikistan	17.02%
Thailand	-3.54%
Turkmenistan	-15.54%
Uzbekistan	36.51%
Vietnam	7.85%

Malaysia: Economic freedom index, 5-year change

Increased economic freedom is strongly associated with high GDP growth, and therefore with rises in residential property prices. Changes in a country’s score on the Heritage Foundation’s freedom index are calculated by the Global Property Guide to produce a 5-point rating:

• Greatly Improved
• Improved
• Nuetral
• Worse
• Much Worse

Source: Calculated using figures from The Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal

Malaysia releases a quarterly house price index. Data are available from the Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM). The Real Estate and Housing Developers Association (REHDA) is the best source of papers, press clippings and stories about the housing market. The National Property Information Center (NAPIC) publishes Property Market Status Report which focuses on property sales.

BNM has useful monetary, financial and economics data.